About the book: 2008 / On a summer night in 1904, a house on the estate of Count Nicholas Karadi near Budapest burns down in a fire. His young wife, the beautiful Beata, dies in the fire. It seemed that the whole meaning of life for the young officer of the General Staff of the Austro-Hungarian Army was forever destroyed. Relatives and friends of Nicholas come from all over the empire to attend the funeral. Hans Gunther Baron von Godenhausen, Major of the Life Guards Regiment of Kaiser Wilhelm II, arrives from Berlin with his wife Alexa, the twin sister of the deceased Beata. Nicholas, who had never seen Alexa before, was shocked by her resemblance to her sister. He does not yet know that this moment will determine his entire future life... The book of the famous European writer Maria Fagiash “Twin Sisters” is published in Russian for the first time.